Pieces of eight
AD 1589-1598 · Resource
Silver eight-real coins minted from Potosi ore, the Spanish 'piece of eight' that became the world's first global currency. They bankrolled the Spanish Empire and circulated from the Americas to Asia.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 1593
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)